This I have to laugh at. Maryland has been to a BCS bowl, won a national championship and has plenty of guys in the NFL. Sure we are better at bball now, but for most of our history we were far more a football power than a basketball one. Maryland still cares a lot about football, but like Rutgers we compete with two pro NFL franchises.
Rutgers has been neither ever, mostly becaues you have been teetering on Ivy league for so long and never committed to big time athletics until recently. I do think Rutgers has a potential to do VERY well in lots of sports in the B1G, you are several years away from realizing that potential. At some point Rutgers will hae to finish #1 or #2 in the B1G to earn that distinction.
Again I think Rutgers can do that long before Indiana, Purdue, Illinois, Northwestern, or even Iowa will.